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A renewed effort to explore for oil drilling in an environmentally sensitive area of Calhoun County in North Florida is now under legal threat.
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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of intent to approve the application by Clearwater Land & Minerals LLC to drill for oil in the Apalachicola River basin.
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The proposed site is surrounded by the Apalachicola River, the Chipola River, and Dead Lakes. The Kleinfelder company wants to use a well that’s already there to drill through the Floridan aquifer in search of oil.
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Both the water and the oysters are "in recovery mode"
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Another drilling firm still has permits to explore in neighboring Calhoun County.
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Cholla Petroleum sent a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in early March expressing its intention to move ahead with the first of what could ultimately be six permitted wells.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently postponed making a final rule on its proposal to ban wild oyster harvesting in the Apalachicola Bay until 2025.
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With wild oyster stocks dwindling, the Apalachicola Riverkeeper is among those who will ask the State of Florida to impose up to a five year halt on oyster harvesting in the Bay.
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A conference in Tallahassee is bringing together political officials, academics and conservation agencies who hope to make the Apalachicola River’s health…
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There’s a new Apalachicola Riverkeeper. Volunteer and fundraiser Georgia Ackerman is taking over for the group’s long-serving leader Dan Tonsmeire. The…